OK I just checked it and it is now updated to the correct preview.

So it took up to approx 19 hours to change. Although bear in mind I wasn't checking it all the time, could be faster. Also note, if you have started highlighting the old version, when you go back into the saved one it will still have the old preview, so you need to start over again.

I can also confirm the preview in the data highlighter is not connected to Google's cache of the page in the index, as the old version of the page is still cached.

Thanks for the tips Thomas. I had considered doing it 'manually' but wanted to experiment with the data highlighter tool.

I'll keep on eye on it and report back the time it took Google to update to the correct preview.

I want to mark up a business address for Google Local, so I thought I would use the data highlighter in WMT. However I only just added the address to the the bottom of the home page and when using data highlighter iit is giving me the old version of page to mark up without the address on.

Rather frustrating, does any body have any experience on the time frame until Google updates the page in the data highlighter?

According to this thread it's not even related to the page re caching:  Data Highlighter: Start link is pulling an old version of page

You can actually host sitemap.xml files on external domains, you just need too verify them all in Web Master tools.

Guidelines here from Google: Sitemaps for multiple sites

Just to add, if you block URLs in robots.txt they wont actually get deindexed. They will be for all intents and purposes be blocked (wont cause duplicate content issues etc) but they will drop into the omitted results:

_In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 13 already displayed._If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included. And will look like this in the SERPS (see attachment).If you want them removed from the SERPs you will need to use the robots NOINDEX meta tag, or use GWMT as William advised.

The disallow entry you posted will block these pages, as long as they all start with that way. Although you don't actually need the trailing wild card as that gets ignored, you can just leave it open. Google robots.txt specs

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I see. I kinda jumped the gun a little with that replay!

It's definitely an interesting case, the problem is usually the reverse of yours. Made even more intriguing by these other results.

The reason you most likely aren't ranking in the UK is you don't appear to have any company address on the site (in the UK or other wise), but the site is hosted on a US IP address.  So if the only clue to your location is your IP address, Google will use that. So if Google is thinking your site is in the US, there really isn't much reason for it to rank it in a UK based search.

The usual thing to suggest to get you ranking in the UK would be to Geo target your domain to the UK, but would you want to sacrifice your ranking in .com? As I'm pretty sure this would effect your .com ranking.

So to keep your ranking in .com and get ranking in UK searches, one approach would be to create an version of your site for the UK -  like you have currently have for your Chinese, German, French and Japanese pages.

You could created a sub folder such as:

http://www.translationzone.com/uk/    (such as Apple do )

Add a version of the site in there to target the UK and you can Geo Target just that folder to the UK in Google Web Master Tools.  Make sure to mark up the site using the correct rel="alternate" hreflang="x" language and locale attributes so Google knows its for the UK and how it relates to the rest of the site.

More reading can be done here on mult lingual sites guidelines.

Perhaps this is too obvious, but can you not change the 302 to 301's?

Yes this is what I thought, but wanted some second opinions.

Although I wouldn't actually need a wild card after BTS, as just leaving it open is the same as using a wildcard:

/fish*..........  Equivalent to "/fish" -- the trailing wildcard is ignored. https://developers.google.com/webmasters/control-crawl-index/docs/robots_txt Thanks for the link, I'll take a look

Do you need the entire preceding path in robots.txt for it to match?

e.g:

I know if i add Disallow: /fish to robots.txt it will block

/fish
/fish.html
/fish/salmon.html
/fishheads
/fishheads/yummy.html
/fish.php?id=anything

But would it block?:

en/fish
en/fish.html
en/fish/salmon.html
en/fishheads
en/fishheads/yummy.html
**en/fish.php?id=anything

(taken from Robots.txt Specifications)** I'm hoping it actually wont match, that way writing this particular robots.txt will be much easier!

As basically I'm wanting to block many URL that have BTS- in such as:

http://www.example.com/BTS-something
http://www.example.com/BTS-somethingelse
http://www.example.com/BTS-thingybob

But have other pages that I do not want blocked, in subfolders that also have BTS- in, such as:

http://www.example.com/somesubfolder/BTS-thingy
http://www.example.com/anothersubfolder/BTS-otherthingy

Thanks for listening

Hi Irene, can you explain what you mean by category view?

Perhaps you mean one of the views on the screen shot below, on the left or right?

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